Team America: World Police.

Wow. Just wow. Anybody seen this besides me? I went to see it by myself today, and I wish I had gone with a group. I laughed my tuckass off. Yes, the whole movie is done with puppets, and yes, that joke does get old sometimes, but otherwise it's a pretty amusing movie. Certainly for fans of Southpark, as it is beyond distasteful, and takes crass humor to all new lows.

I recommend this movie for those people who have no pride whatsoever, or those who are drunk.

Anyone else catch Parker and Stone on Conan last week? They talked about their blowing up of Michael Moore in this movie and how that came about:

Conan: Michael Moore is depicted in this film, along with a lot of other celebrities... I talked about it with one of our producers after we saw the movie cause you guys sort of go after Michael Moore... And I thought, that's surprising, because Michael Moore was in Bowling for Columbine. You know, it's his movie. He interviewed you on Bowling for Columbine. And I remember thinking, "I thought those guys were friends with Michael Moore. Did they have a falling out?" What happened there?

MS: Well I wasn't so much that we had a falling out. It was that he asked me to do the interview for Bowling for Columbine because I grew up in Littleton, Colorado.

Conan: Right

MS: So I was like "okay I'll talk about growing up in Littleton, Colorado." What he did that made us a little angry is that he put an animation that is right after my piece in Bowling for Columbine that's very South Parkesque in it's look. And I think 99% of the people who saw Bowling for Columbine think Trey and I did that animation.

Conan: I thought it was yours until my producer told me that he talked to you guys.

TP: He asked us if we would do an animated thing for him and we were like "you know, we grew up in Colorado, our parents have guns...you know... whatever."

Conan: I'm wearing a gun now.

TP: Exactly. We strongly believe in guns. And so he kind of did it anyway. So later when he did Farenheit 9/11 people were like, "well Michael Moore kind of lies and manipulates to make people think certain things." We're like personal victims of that. So we basically decided to make him into a puppet and blow him up.

MS: I mean He didn't explicitly say "Matt and Trey did this animation," but he made it look like it. And that's what he does in his movies. He uses two images put together and he creates meaning where there is none.

TP: And he's fat.

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The way Parker said that last line was pretty funny.
A lot of people STILL think that Parker and Stone did that animation in Bowling for Columbine when they actually had nothing to do with it. That's pretty lame thought that Moore hired out someone else to do a Southpark lookalike cartoon after they refused to do it.

I went to see the very first showing at the local cineplex and laughed my butt off. It manages to insult just about everyone, has a lot of tasteless humor and yes the sex scene is a total riot. I'll have to watch it again just to try to catch all the references to other movies that they put in (off the top of my head: Armageddon, Kill Bill, the Broadway show "Rent", Star Wars, Rocky, Star Trek TNG).

I'm old enough to have seen all the Gerry Anderson puppet shows (Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds) when I was a kid so the puppetry thing was right up my alley.